My dumbest day in Crypto, and a warning for others.

A post something around a week ago had a list of easy ways to make a passive income with cryptocurrencies without an initial investment. The list included using brave, presearch, odysee, and blogging sites that payout in crypto. Someone in the comments mentioned flipping nfts on opensea by obtaining them through giveaways on Reddit. I've been jumping on all these methods through the past week to see how much is possible.

I was especially interested in the nft flipping idea. I didn't have moonshot aspirations with it, but hey if I have nothing but some time involved what am I really risking. I already had a metamask that I wasn't using so about a week goes by I have around 30ish nfts with 4 of them being wholely unique in their collections. Haven't sold any in that first week and still haven't, so it is what I expected more or less.

I'm in this routine of going through the giveaways and slapping my address around like a fresh graduate handing their resume to every person at a job fair. Upvote, follow, retweet, join the discord, whatever it was taking. I'd have my large screen playing a show while I would do this on the smaller screen below on a Sunday morning just relaxing. So into the cycle of an upvote, follow, join the discord, over and over. I click on one post and it took me to a 200 keys site stating that their nfts can unlock other nfts. Now, I heard of nfts unlocking or upgrading later, and I have nfts with unlockables so I wasn't getting alarmed yet. Go into 'mint a key' and it took me to metamask page and requested I change my password. Thought it was kinda weird but maybe it's because I was posting my address everywhere. (Now this is where I fucked up entirely)

I put in my seed phrases and set my password like an absolute dumbass. About 10 minutes later I was on opensea looking at an nft that just came in and I saw in real time a notification that my transfer of a piece I own successfully went through to another account. Then another, and another, and I said 'oh fuck no.' Went into metamask reset my password like the wind (which I don't know if that bought me time or the scammer wasn't interested in anything else cause they only took 4 of my 31 pieces), then made a new metamask and never wrote so fast to have my new phrases and password secure. Transferred everything else I had to the new account except for one piece that requires a maticverse wallet. (Now the next part of my dumbness)

Opensea said I need .005 matic to transfer my last nft. I remember that I got some free matic from answering some questions on Coinbase, so what the hell. I only have 3 dollars of matic and the gas fee to transfer 10 cents is 4.33 dollars. Okay, I'll just swap another one of those free coins I don't have enough to transfer anyways into Matic. I have 5 dollars of Matic now and spend 4.33 dollars to transfer 10 cents to the compromised wallet in the hope of being able to pay the gas fee and just have all my remaining nfts together. Nope, I have to trade it from the Ethereum mainnet to the Matic mainnet and that would cost 11 dollars in gas fees. So yeah, I spent about 4.50 dollars to try and rescue a unique nft that's one in a 10k collection that will probably never sell out of the initial collection anyways.

At least none of this costed me anything more than time, but with that time I did learn a few things, and I hope others learn as well and don't make the same mistakes I did. I'm sure after reporting the account they have already made a new one to post in those communities again.